Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across ...

Tech leaders share the engineering breakthroughs still needed to build immersive, scalable and interoperable digital ecosystems beyond today’s virtual worlds.

A Colorado State University experiment spanning more than two decades has found that removal of apex predators from an ecosystem can create lasting changes that are not reversed after they return—at ...

By eating what no one else can, zebras expand the land’s capacity for life, making them foundational drivers of ecosystem ...

From both inside and outside of the negotiating hall at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP16, held in Cali, Colombia, mapping, monitoring and reporting on ecosystems have been a focal point ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Global Ecosystems Atlas is a tool that aims to serve as an open-source repository for data on all the ecosystems in the world. Developed by the ...

First ever annual estimate of economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems is US$58 trillion - equivalent to 60% of global GDP Degradation of rivers, lakes, wetlands and aquifers threatens their ...

Sea urchins climb onto kelp when their densities are so high they remove all drift kelp and then actively forage on attached, living kelp. (Credit: Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS) Tipping points are the ...

Did you know that coastal and marine ecosystems can store up to five times more carbon than forests, while providing a host of other benefits to communities? We spoke with Michele Diez, Senior ...

Drought, human-caused climate change, invasive species and a “legacy” of environmental issues are permanently altering California’s landscape and placing some communities and ecosystems at increasing ...